Actually, it would make sense. After all, if you recall the bellboy during 1-2; he was REEEEALLY excited about making the hotel room Miss May checked in as a major tourist attraction, a "Room where the Murderer stayed".

So in that logic, it would make sense that he kept the screwdriver there, as it's part of the attraction that is the room now.

Oof, that's what I was afraid of. VGChartz is not reliable with their numbers at all, especially for older games and games that don't have publicly released figures. It's possible they've gotten better (if nothing else, they'd be crazy not to be using SteamSpy where possible to add at least a little more legitimacy), but you really can't use them for old DS numbers.

I'm not sure there's ever been formal/reliable sales numbers for the AA games in the West. There have been one-off comments (like AAI sales being "poor") but hard numbers are hard to come by, and these days Capcom tends to speak in global terms about sales for the series, and Japanese sales tend to be the bulk of those so it's hard to get a read on Western performance.

I think the games are doing okay in the West, to be clear - we wouldn't have gotten AA6 if they weren't - but they're probably not doing well enough to justify the opportunity cost of translating DGS. (At least in conjunction with the Holmes messiness.)

Well, if that is the case with regards to VGChartz, it is safe to assume that there are no formal/reliable sales numbers for the games since that is literally the only place I can find one that has physical numbers.

It's never really been about LIBERALS, something I've been pointing out to my fellow GGers for years, it's about "the regressive left", people who are on the political left but are extremely ILliberal, and have a very similar "anything that personally disgusts or offends me is evil and I'm going to think of a justification for forcing it to change" mentality to the kind of behavior that used to be most commonly seen in Christian conservative moral crusaders, but has also always had a good showing among left-leaning soccer mom types.

The broader left needs to drop these extremist identity Marxists like the dead weight they are, instead of coddling and legitimizing them. I'm all for coming to Jesus, but to mix my religious metaphors, Mohammad must also come to the mountain. I'm not going to take it very seriously when the likes of Polygon and Katherine Cross rattle their sabers and claim to want to defend gaming from Trump's claims it causes violence...without giving an inch of their own position that it causes sexism. And if they will not cave and the extreme right will not cave, then I'll be taking a third option and doing everything I can to carve out a sane center where moderate liberals and conservatives can resist extremism from both sides and try to build a world where we can agree to disagree in peace and respect each other's freedom to live differently than we would live and to like what we don't like.

Here's the thing though. The regressive list, while vocal, are a tiny minority within the left-wing movement, and that "identity Marxists" doesn't really exist, since many marxists criticize today's form of identity politics (which is not traditional identity politics, in which policies are crafted that benefit one group over another, because it basically means ALL politics is identity politics) which is essentially a politicization of identity.

I checked around, and I found this information from a reddit post on this very issue back in 2016, courtesy of /u/Ocsttiac :

All Sherlock Holmes stories are public domain pretty much everywhere, except for one place... that being the US.

These 10 Sherlock Holmes stories are not public domain in the US:

The Illustrious Client (1924)

The Blanched Soldier (1926)

The Three Gables (1926)

The Sussex Vampire (1924)

The Three Garridebs (1924)

The Creeping Man (1923)

The Lion’s Mane (1926)

The Veiled Lodger (1927)

Shoscombe Old Place (1927)

The Retired Colourman (1926)

And wouldn't you know it, DGS does borrow some things from these stories, most notably the name "John Garrideb", the significance of "The Lion's Mane", and numerous, numerous visual references in 221B Baker Street. Feasibly, DGS could somehow make its way to the UK, but it would be unfair to deprive the US of the game thanks to copyright bullshit.﻿

The sad truth of the matter is that he has a very good point. The Ace Attorney series is really popular in the US, compared to Europe at least, but their copyright system is, to put it mildly, really fucked up to the umpteenth degree.

Well as Adam noted, Walt Disney used public domain stories to make some classic animated movies, and some of the original mickey mouse animations were adaptations of earlier works, so I have no doubt that he would be rolling in his grave at what Disney the company created.

If I may be honest, I think that's what they are going towards; it feels like they are ready to put Phoenix Wright and Edgeworth on the sidelines and play completely as the rookie lawyers like Athena and (maybe) Apollo.

I actually thought Phoenix wasn't too bad in SoJ. Compared to DD, they reduced the use of his "shocked" sprite, and his reaction to the prosecution's attacks was more like "so this theory didn't work, gotta think of another one fast", which is more or less his MO anyway. It also works in the context of the game, because the court is biased against the defense more than back home, and they'll stop humoring Nick and will have him executed the moment he stops presenting new theories, thus bluffing to the max.

Well to be fair, it works in DD as well if they, from the start of bringing Ace Attorney to the west back in 05, was more faithful to the series and had it remained based in Tokyo instead of having it be based in Los Angeles lol.

Kojima has repeatedly stated throughout the years he's done with Metal Gear ever since MGS2, even though he keeps coming back. He stated that The Phantom Pain will be the last Metal Gear game so there's that.

Even if he does want to make more Metal Gear games and get the license from Konami, I suspect that Konami will likely make the price point too high for him to afford. After all, the franchise is a cash cow for Konami.

they really have started to put serious delays in their releases. it seems like it may be due to 1 of 2 things (or both) 1: the voice actors didn't have time or wanted a more relaxed schedule. 2: Funimation themselves was worried about eventually catching up to the Japanese dub so they've slowed it down to 2 seasons a year. this means that for every 48 episodes the Japanese dub gets we get 20. Formerly we were getting 70 for every 48 (before the time skip)

still that's no excuse for 20 episodes a year, they might as well make it 40 episodes a year if they are afraid of catching up. that would mean the Japanese dub would get 8 more releases a year than the English dub keeping us well behind.

Well, technically, they released ep 554 on the Funimation site. But I suspect that you can't find it on there because it's likely behind a pay-wall you need to get a subscription for the site or wait till it becomes free.